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- Portland, OR
Howdy all,
I'm pleading to the collective wisdom of this forum in the hopes that someone can help me resolve (what I suspect are) mobo issues with my new AMD build.
I've got a FX-8350 Vishera installed on an Asus 990FX Sabertooth R2 mobo, 16 GB GSKILL Sniper 1866 DDR3. Coolermaster 212 Plus CPU fan, Samsung 840 Pro SSD. I built the rig last night and installed Win7 Ultimate x64 + Asus drivers and updates. All seemed well until late this morning when it started intermittently re-booting and throwing BSODs. This can happen at boot, when the system is idle, under light CPU load (browsing the web), or heavy load (EVE). The random reboots also occur when I'm working in BIOS so I'm fairly sure it's not a Windows issue (sometimes BIOS hangs too, forcing hard restart).
Things I've done so far to troubleshoot:
None of these have worked and I'm still getting frequent reboots and BSODs. I'm at my wit's end - I'd really like to avoid an RMA.
I've built systems before but never messed with over-clocking CPU or memory. I know nothing about how to adjust timings/voltage, etc...
I've seen some forum posts here and elsewhere from others who had similar issues with this mobo/CPU combo but none yielded conclusive answers.
Can anyone on this forum assist me with advice as to next steps to resolve this? Thanks much in advance.
I'm pleading to the collective wisdom of this forum in the hopes that someone can help me resolve (what I suspect are) mobo issues with my new AMD build.
I've got a FX-8350 Vishera installed on an Asus 990FX Sabertooth R2 mobo, 16 GB GSKILL Sniper 1866 DDR3. Coolermaster 212 Plus CPU fan, Samsung 840 Pro SSD. I built the rig last night and installed Win7 Ultimate x64 + Asus drivers and updates. All seemed well until late this morning when it started intermittently re-booting and throwing BSODs. This can happen at boot, when the system is idle, under light CPU load (browsing the web), or heavy load (EVE). The random reboots also occur when I'm working in BIOS so I'm fairly sure it's not a Windows issue (sometimes BIOS hangs too, forcing hard restart).
Things I've done so far to troubleshoot:
Run memtest - RAM passed.
Swapped memory from DIMMs 1/3 to 0/2
Adjusted memory speed down to 1333 (mobo detected as 1600, not 1866)
Disabled ECC mode (was on by default)
Flashed BIOS to newest version from ASUS' site
None of these have worked and I'm still getting frequent reboots and BSODs. I'm at my wit's end - I'd really like to avoid an RMA.
I've built systems before but never messed with over-clocking CPU or memory. I know nothing about how to adjust timings/voltage, etc...
I've seen some forum posts here and elsewhere from others who had similar issues with this mobo/CPU combo but none yielded conclusive answers.
Can anyone on this forum assist me with advice as to next steps to resolve this? Thanks much in advance.